Paul McCann Poems

Path Of Peace
By Paul Mc Cann
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After a war a soldier sometimes has to cry as dreams of those memories waters in the eye.

It's very sad when this world of ours goes to war.
Peace is the thing that soldiers have fought and died for.
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The Tanka Structure


A short poem that uses syllables in it's structure similar to the Haiku.
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River Roads Of Peace
By Paul Mc Cann
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I can still see my mother squatting down by the fireplace ,
Putting some sticks over scrunched up newspaper .

She struck a match and lit the paper as smoke arose.
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He worked so hard all his life,
to pay the bills and provide.

Somehow through the thick and thin,
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Pre-Phrase (Paul McCann)

This is a structure of poetry I created that has one phrase or line repeating as an answer to the previous line of the poem. The phrase will then become the totle of the poem.
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A Hard Call
By Paul McCann
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If a castle I could make, of a kingdom in a lake I’d be King in my underwater world.

To rule in my own pool, from a throne would be so cool, I could even make the water round me swirl.
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Non-verbal things said, can be misread, time and time again.
A word left out, can place a doubt and facts are lost in vain.

Some bad reports end up out of sorts like some patients do.
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